Problem with GVIM under Arch

[Martin Frezman]

So, I got X up and running, but, alas, my favorite X app, GVIM, is weird.

I installed GVIM via Pacman - and it appears to be the latest and greatest (version 8.0 - note that all my other Pis, running Raspbian, are still in 7.4)m but when I bring it up under X, the characters are all weird. In fact, all the characters look like Mahjong tiles. Very weird.

Is this a known problem? Can it be fixed?

Note: If needed, I can produce and post a picture, ...

[Martin Frezman]

Well, thanks for all the responses...

Anyway, here's an update:

1) If I copy over a working gvim from a working system (running Raspbian) and run it on the Arch system, the same problem occurs (the characters all look like Mah Jongg tiles). This implies that the problem is not in the gvim binary itself, but is in the system setup.

2) If I 'ssh -Y' to that working Raspbian system, and run gvim there (with X redirected back to the Arch system via the -Y option), then gvim works fine. This implies that the problem is not in the X server setup, so it must be somewhere else in the system setup. Anyway, this is the workaround for the time being. I run gvim from another system, but use it to edit files on the Arch system (using sshfs).